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Ideas may come from internal projects as well as from collaborations with research programs at partner universities and technical institutes all over the world.\nFrom creating experiments and prototyping implementations to designing new architectures, engineers work on real-world problems including artificial intelligence, data mining, natural language processing, hardware and software performance analysis, improving compilers for mobile platforms, as well as core search and much more. But you stay connected to your research roots as an active contributor to the wider research community by partnering with universities and publishing papers.\nAs a Robotics Research Engineer, you will connect physical and simulated robot platforms to our research and machine learning software stack. Your core focus is to build a unified software interface across physics simulation and physical hardware so that models, teleoperation systems, and evaluation tools run seamlessly in both domains. Working in our Cambridge lab alongside hardware, simulation, and machine learning teams, you will bring up new robotic platforms, end effectors, and wearable devices and make them ready for research.\nArtificial intelligence will be one of humanity’s most transformative inventions. At Google DeepMind, we are a pioneering AI lab with exceptional interdisciplinary teams focused on advancing AI development to solve complex global challenges and accelerate high-quality product innovation for billions of users. We use our technologies for widespread public benefit and scientific discovery, ensuring safety and ethics are always our highest priority.\nWe are pushing the boundaries across multiple domains. 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